"DARING BUREAUCRACY: Revelations and Ruminations encapsulates experiences of a dedicated bureaucrat into pleasing and soluble globules for easy assimilation. The episodes will entertain and enlighten the administrators, politicians, scholars as well as the laymen. Some of them contain a virtual mine of information for the hardbound civil servants as well as aspirants. It carries a rich and diverse flavour of the life and times of the author ranging from the early post-independence era to the current epochal demonetisation and beyond. It displays a rare and lively sense of wit and humour, which finds something to laugh at even in adversities. It is a saga of grit and determination of essentially a traditional middle-class hopeful, who had a mind of his own and who kept the interest of the organisations in which he worked above his own. If you are a civil servant, some incidents may strike a familiar chord. If you are not, you may enjoy the fads and foibles of 'babus' as well as confessions of a fellow human being. Some of the tips may provide good lessons for the young civil service aspirants. Many of his experiences recorded in this book may forewarn the public servants about the shape of things to come. This work is extremely useful for policy-makers, bureaucrats, scholars and students of public administration. "I find this (book) quite unique in its concept, design and execution. The range of episodes that (the author) deals with in this book is not only unusual but also covers the events of an era gone by as well as of most recent origin. The richness of the fabric woven together is indeed out of the ordinary."

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